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24th Feb 2012, 8:45 pm | #1 |
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Old Leeds TV Graveyard.
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I wonder if the attached photo and description is of interest. Members from the Leeds area may be able to offer more background to the story, perhaps. How many sets can we identify? No prizes for getting the apparently complete Pye! Phil. |
24th Feb 2012, 9:09 pm | #2 |
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Re: Old Leeds TV Graveyard.
There was a thread on Padgetts' a couple of years ago:-
https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...hlight=padgets Regards, Mick. |
24th Feb 2012, 9:11 pm | #3 |
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Re: Old Leeds TV Graveyard.
Padgett's has been recalled several times on here, but that's the clearest rendition of that amazing photo I've seen yet.
I think the little set bottom left is a GEC.... If only we had a time machine! Steve J |
24th Feb 2012, 9:54 pm | #4 |
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Re: Old Leeds TV Graveyard.
I have that postcard and it says "He doesn't even like television".
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24th Feb 2012, 9:56 pm | #5 |
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Re: Old Leeds TV Graveyard.
"Scrap TV's and drive to work in a Rolls Royce".
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25th Feb 2012, 11:09 am | #6 |
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Re: Old Leeds TV Graveyard.
He is sitting on a Ekco T231. The receiver to the left is indeed a GEC BT1155 and spot the Cossor 108K CRT to the right of the guy's head. Guess the picture was taken around 1966 by the look of the sets being scrapped. We all did it but not on such a massive basis.
J. PS I think the chassis just above the GEC is a Pye CTW17F. |
25th Feb 2012, 7:10 pm | #7 |
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Re: Old Leeds TV Graveyard.
There must be thousands of sets in the picture. These sets must be about ten years old at that time. Tecnology didn't have long life back then, just like now.
When I was in the trade I sold lots of Philips (K9) sets from early/mid 70's in the early 90's. Got them defective for about free, fixed them fast and sold them from my home. It was easy work and good money. |
25th Feb 2012, 9:54 pm | #8 |
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Re: Old Leeds TV Graveyard.
The shop was still there into the eighties, although the fella running it was much younger than in that picture so was possibly a son or bought the business, I bought many panels and parts from there.
Never saw out the back though and it's surrounded by houses now. I don't remember a TV parts shop of this type in Leeds unless it was the Radio parts shop on Hunslet Road almost opposite Startright (motorcyle) spares..? |
26th Feb 2012, 10:00 am | #9 |
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It looks more like a scrapyard rather than somewhere you would actually dismantle receivers. J.
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26th Feb 2012, 2:24 pm | #10 |
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Re: Old Leeds TV Graveyard.
I'm sure the Padgett's ads in Television magazine in the early 1970's said "As seen on TV", had there been on a local news programme?
Hadn't thought about them for years! Cheers, Hugh |
27th Feb 2012, 3:39 am | #11 |
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Re: Old Leeds TV Graveyard.
The sentence in that article which reads "In fact over the past few years we have been doing good business by sending them to New Zealand where a set costs much more than over here". That's interesting as this raises the chance of something interesting and old surfacing here. So come on, where are they all hiding?
Great photo too by the way, would have loved to stumble around in there, would be like heaven.
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27th Feb 2012, 7:18 pm | #12 |
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Re: Old Leeds TV Graveyard.
Hi,
Strange how nowadays some people have started making money again from dismantling young LCD sets with smashed screens and selling the panels. Recycling in its truest sense - Mr Padgett would have approved, though I doubt a Roller is on the cards now! Glyn |
12th Sep 2012, 6:30 pm | #13 |
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Re: Old Leeds TV Graveyard.
Hi Phil,
Better late than never! When was that photo of Padgett taken? I bought loads of stuff from him in the 60/70s. All good! I've never been to his shop but I was in Dewsbury last week and regret not making the effort to at least see where it used to be. Regards, Richard |
13th Sep 2012, 8:42 pm | #14 |
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Re: Old Leeds TV Graveyard.
I grew up about nine miles away and once did make it to Liversedge old town hall. Came away with dad's car filled with ex-aircraft surplus chassis. Mum wasn't too pleased.
Kids blowing their spending money got a very good deal from Mr Padgett! And there was also Jim Fish starting up near the top of Chapel Hill in Huddersfield in the middle 60's. Golden times! David
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14th Sep 2012, 9:09 am | #15 |
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Re: Old Leeds TV Graveyard.
Padgett's premises were two miles down the road from where we live.
It's a listed building and has been converted to flats. Jim Fish started the Hi Fi Centre in Cross Church Street (Huddersfield) where he had a thriving business selling things like Quad, plus a component shop. Details here.
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14th Sep 2012, 12:38 pm | #16 |
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Re: Old Leeds TV Graveyard.
Hi Mike,
Jim Fish opened his amateur radio shop in about 1967, on the corner of Milford Street and Chapel Hill. It was a prominent building because everything further on Milforsd street had been demolished by that time. He did a roaring trade in components, surplus bits and those newfangled Trio transceivers which appeared at that time. A couple of years later he opened the Hifi Shop in the adjacent shop down Chapel Hill, and later an offshoot of the Hifi shop was opened in Brighouse. It was in the 70s that both businesses moved to the old Thomas Walker's shoe shop in Cross Church Street. Hifi upstairs, amateur radio downstairs. Jim has nothing to do with them now and they are, I believe, separate businesses. What was the amateur radio business seems to be mostly doing things for discos and routine bits for domestic gadgets. I was there at the opening day. Jim's a nice chap and the events which led to cancelling his retirement in Spain were very sad. Jim Fish, Padgetts and M&B made for a great childhood! David
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14th Sep 2012, 12:48 pm | #17 |
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Re: Old Leeds TV Graveyard.
Bought an FT200 plus that AM 144Mhz Tx and modulator that he used to make (£25 each unit) back in 1974.
"Tuning High To Low " was the phrase on 144Mhz back in those days.
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Re: Old Leeds TV Graveyard.
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(AR88LF plus MM 4-6megs 2m converter) The converter was acquired originally for use with a R1155. I probably bought something from Padgetts mail order side sometime- I think most of the usual suspects had my custom at one time or another.....
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14th Sep 2012, 6:25 pm | #19 |
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Re: Old Leeds TV Graveyard.
Hello Richard,
No sign of a date on the print, sorry. Phil. |
15th Sep 2012, 6:54 am | #20 |
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Re: Old Leeds TV Graveyard.
A very good but sadly departed friend of mine once built a 2m rig with a very crude valve VFO running on 8MHz, somewhat unstable, and obviously multiplied up 18 times. We kidded him that he should call CQ and comment that he was "drifting from High to Low" . That too was in Leeds, ~1970.
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